I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance. Andre Gide More Quotes by Andre Gide More Quotes From Andre Gide If life were organized, there would be no need for art. Andre Gide would-be art needs Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered. Andre Gide remembered block Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon. Andre Gide prayer love hands The truth is, I hoped the cure would dislike me. I tried to think of disagreeable things to say to him -- I could hit on nothing that wasn't charming. It's wonderful how hard I find it not to be fascinating. Andre Gide dislike-me wonderful thinking Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence. Andre Gide parent would-be children The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard. Andre Gide obstacles greatness artist I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation Andre Gide sensations use At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing. Andre Gide wrinkles real birthday There is no work of art that is without short cuts. Andre Gide works-of-art cutting art Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible. Andre Gide sleep night believe Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair; ready to get up, to leave. Andre Gide settling arms able What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance. Andre Gide elude elements mind The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation. Andre Gide emotional sorry justice Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals. Andre Gide triumph belief littles Solitude is bearable only with God. Andre Gide bearable solitude Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours? Andre Gide empathy apathy sound To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save. Andre Gide bruises claims heart Not everyone can be an orphan. Andre Gide orphan literature Prejudices are the props of civilization. Andre Gide prejudice justice civilization To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it. Andre Gide saddened refuse truth
